Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Gladwell

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

Kim Smith

Make sure that you choose the right agency... there are a lot of scams out there. Never do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable.

Christine Anderson

Making music to me is so much more important than being a star. If I could choose whether to be very famous right now or respected and understood a hundred years after I die, I'd choose the second option.

Ashley Young

Love takes many forms. It is an ifinite emotion that can never fully be contained. You can not make yourself stop loving someone. You can not choose who you fall in love with, You can love many people at the same time, but most of all, you can never stop reaching for it.

Ric Edelman

Left to their own devices, (investors) naturally choose safety and it's one of the worst decisions they can make,

Sarah Breathnach

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the ''good life'' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

H. Hunt

Leslie (Alexander) is the practitioner. I'm very interested in why people choose to poison the things they are going to eat.

Mary Wormington

Many people will choose Texarkana as their new home because of its hospitality.

Howard Opinsky

Shareholders lose when companies choose to settle investigations motivated by political ambition, fueled by threats and settled out of fear.

Carlos Santana

Life, at least with us, doesn't need to fall like a military drill. The way we do things, we don't need windows and doors and ceilings. Things just happen when they happen.

Stacey Quandt

Security is especially relevant for government vendors. Governments are saying they'd rather use open-source technology because there aren't any unseen open doors into the system. But it's not only that. Linux offers better performance, more stability, and a lower cost. It's a threat to Microsoft, and there's no turning back.

Lao Tzu

One may know the world without going out of doors

Diane Keaton

...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

Edgar Allan Poe

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Edgar Allan Poe

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

Carla Johnson

I feel like this opens a lot of doors for me that were shut. I'll be able to manage my life, get my life back.

Eleanora Duse

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Josh Boone

Mainly it's Marcus, to be honest with you. Marcus is telling me a whole lot of times where to go. He'll just come up to me after a play and say, 'Next time slip that.' I'll be like, 'All right,' and he'll just throw a perfect pass. It just really helps to have a guy like him on the floor leading us.

John Beilein

Senior players have helped us make our style work. It just opens the floor for us, whether people are in man or zone.

Ray Allen

Mentally it just got worse, ... And physically, you're just running up and down the floor and it seemed like everything just went their way. Again, I know we'll recover from this.

Chuck Benda

My job is pretty easy. I just turn them loose on the floor and let them play.

David Smith

Maybe they can't be in the penthouse but we don't want them all on the ground floor or in the basement.

Russ Feingold

Now we can take this legislation to the floor and have a real vote on reform, without constitutional arguments to hide behind,

Matthew Arnold

From whose floor the new-bathed stars / Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.

Joe Rivers

When those guys are on the floor we feel we're a varsity team in Vermont who can play with anybody.

Caleb Holmes

I'm always on the floor at the end of the game.

George Foresman

For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere...

Dom DeLuise

I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

Stephen Kay

She's always made excuses, 'Oh I was in a fog -- Tex made us do it',

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

David Mitchell

Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

Denise Levertov

An absolute patience. Trees stand up to their knees in fog. The fog slowly flows uphill. White cobwebs, the grass leaning where deer have looked for apples. The woods from brook to where the top of the hill looks over the fog, send up not one bird. So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

Chevy Chase

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

Bertolt Brecht

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?

and City

Like any member of the family, they managed to ignore the faults.

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Dave Davis

Matt's idea, as it is with all injuries, was to ignore it and it would go away.

Randy Pausch

When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

Bonnie Raitt

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

Neil Innes

Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.

Peter Schuyler

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Denise Martin

We can't ignore new technologies, new information that indicate there are risks.

Hugh Johnson

The one thing you don't want to ignore is the stock market itself,

Joseph Seamon

Let stern lessons of yesterdays be your food, your drink, your rest.

Jeev Milkha Singh

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

Toba Beta

Getting older makes you no wiser, but number of lessons that learned.

Sebastian Thrun

In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.

Tommy Mottola

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

Chris Willingham

We can all take lessons from our cats. ... They are very, very perceptual.

Alan Trammel

Those are lessons that we need to learn. I made my statement. I talked to him. It's over.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

Gary Johnson

Liam says Hayles nudged him first and the referee has said he will have a look at the video.

Margo Wootan

I work in this area, and I don't even know what some of those things are referring to.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.

Willard Boyle

Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics.

Nicola Sturgeon

The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people.

Brooke Shields

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Chad Channing

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

Harry Redknapp

The referee has done us, he had a terrible time of it,

Lindsey Graham

If this were a fight, the referee would have stopped it.

Neel Mukherjee

Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.

Mike Birbiglia

Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Victor Diaz

I was so stressed. Every at-bat's been like the World Series for me.

Brea Grant

'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison is my favorite series of all time.

Courtney Gains

I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.

Victor Diaz

You know it, man. Every at-bat this spring was like the World Series for me. I'm just going to go out there and be ready.

Christopher Golden

'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'

Christy Romano

Developing a series is a next step for me.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Rupam Das

Software is a type of seduction, it's addictive, it's better when it's free.

Bill Gates

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

Yajur Veda

May the 'Lord of the speech' makes our voice sweet and soft. We should always be soft spoken.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken

Chris Evert

Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in the one area - that's what it takes to be a champion.

Vincent Cannistraro

If anything is a soft target, it's that.

Michael Wolff

When the source is a story. That's a softball question.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Dennis Rodman

Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,

Edgar Allan Poe

There is no beauty without some strangeness

Earl Nightingale

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

John A. Wheeler

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory universe.

Dean Stanley

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

Mira Nair

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.